Bottle-rinsing machine.



A. WOLFENSBERGER.

BOTTLE RINSING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION mum APR.26,1909.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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A. WOLPENSBERGBR. BOTTLHRINSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR 26, 1909.

93%,870u mm Sept. 21, 1909.-

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g V v IIIIIIJA IIIIIIIIIIIII4VIIIIIIII I we 0% r i z/ fl/ ADOLPH wonrnnssnzaenn, or MILXVAUZKEE,

BoT'rLn-nmsme HlACHINE,

Application filed April 26, 1909.

- To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anonrn l l 'onrnnsnnnour, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the. county of Mil 'au- 5 liee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful improvements in llottle-ltinsing Machine 5 and I do hereby a full, (:1 ar and declare that the following i exact des :ription thereof.

The object. of my invention is to provide simple, economical and rapid rinsing machine lor bottles or the like, its arrangen'ient. and construction being such that a tray oi bottles may be readily adjusted over a stationary series of spray-nozzles constituting; a fixed rinser, the water-supply to the spraynomles being controlled by a rotatory table. ineidental to movement thereof. hy the operator. which n'iorement carries oti a tray of bottles from the stationary rinser that had previously heen operated upon by said rinser.

The invention therefore consists in e irtain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereiiiafter l ully setforth with reference to the, aeoonuianyiug drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings: Figure l represents a longitudinal sectional VlOW ol a rinsing machine embodying the features of my invention, the section being indicated by line l--1 of Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan View of the same with parts broken away and parts in section to more clearly show certain structural features; Fig. 3, a detail cross-seetion of the tray-supporting tahle illustrating the method of attaching the same to the rinsermechanism; the section being indicated by. line 8-l of Fig. 2, and, Fig. l. is a crosss'eetion on line l e of Fig. 1, illustrating the ineased spray-nozzles in plan.

Referring by numerals to the drawings. fl represents a base provided with a hollow standard 2 into which standard is loosely mounted a spindle 3, the lower end of the spindle being supported by an antiirietion button 41-. The spindle 3 supports a rotatory table 5, which table as is provided with a plurality of wings 6, haringparallel flanged edges that serve as guides for bottle-trays 7, the flanges of the wings being flared at their outer terminals in order to more readily guide the bottle-trays as the latter are slid upon the wings -lrom a stationary table ,8.- T he stationa y table 8 is ipported 1w a housing Q, being hinged to st--ap'is 10, .zh straps are secured to one hestshown in Fig. 2,-

side of said housing. supported upon the oppo ing, by n eans of feet slotted ends hat or t l I from the said hot \idcd with The h on one side 0 eured by hol had to the sp nection betw housing is also of convenience in yet: i in Ease of regairs, th ply swung; bael; upon i r i ing the nut and ooh; c asa clamping means housing i supported 3 which i (tends from part of tne lumn. he i. water-cavity which the chamber 7 being drain of the housir race of the sti I two planes, the lower tured to correspond with nozzles thereunder. the a zles being al the upper I flared rear terminal 2i. ward and 'orer ll. the tahle. is also prorir. d u flange rises in widt from the lower plane 1? ward to the rear edge Eaeh sprayaiorznle 13 internal teleseopie tube 5" t the upper end of? the spray-- pcrlnrrs of a gland 24- while the low loo tube is expanded to lot-1n, a

which normally re upon. a, c; fast in the outer shell of the as shown in Fig. 1, of the d; water-supply-pipe 27 is connected 28, which Valve is radially disposed relation to the rotary tahle cated directly under the. taee e sa An outlet-portv of this "valve in neetion with the Water eavi low. column 16 the p by a valve closure 29 vided with a sleeve-extension 30, having its bearing in the valve-casing. A valve-stein 31 projects from the valve-closure and extends through a stuffing-box 32, the end of the valve-stem being provided with a cylindrical head 33, which head is guided in a shell 34 secured to the valve-casing, there being a coil-spring surrounding the valvestem within" the Valve-casing, which spring is arranged to exert a closi.ng- )ressure upon the valve-closure. T 10 head is provided with lateral slots 30, hich serve as guides for a pin 37 that extends from the head 34. The end of the head 34 is also slotted for the reception of the shank of a tappet 38, the shank-portion of which tappet is fulcrumed in the head, there being shoulders 39 extending from the shank-portion of said tappet arranged to impinge against the end of the shell 34:.

Secured to the underside of each of the Wings 6 of the rotatory table is an adjustable wiper 40, which wipers are arranged to engage the tappet 38 as the table is revolved, causing the said tappet shoulder 39 to rock upon the end of the shell and thereby open the outlet-port from the valve QS'to admit water to the spray-nozzles. The adjustment of the wipers 40 with relation to the tappetend thus controls the interval of time in which the valve is held open.

The upper faces of the rotatory table Wings as shown are upon the same plane as the lower face of the fixed table 8, whereby the bottle trays 7 containing rinsed bottles may be slid fronr the stationary table to a wing of the rotatory table alined therewith. The bottle-trays 7 may be of any desired construction and form no part of my invention, except that it is necessary that their base-plates 42 are provided with apertures 43 through which the inverted mouths of the bottles are arranged to extend, being fitted therein. The rack-portion 44 of the bottletrays, which support the bodies of the bottles, have lug-extensions 45 at either end thereof, which extensions serve, when ongaged by an alined tray to push the same forward.

In operating my device, one operator places atray of bottles upon the rear portion of the table 8, adjusting it firmly against the flange '22. The tray is then pushed forward between the flanges 20 and 22, until such time as it drops upon the lower plane 19 thereof, the operator then draws the tray rearward until the rear edge of its baseplate 42 engages the shoulder 46 formed between the upper and lower planes of said table. In this position, the mouths of the bottles are in register with the 'apertures in the lower plane of. the table, in which apertures they drop slightly and seat therein. "rte operator who receives the cleansed bottles-front the rotatory table, new

washer.

sway-nozzles causes the telescopic tubes therein torise and enter the necks of the bottles and l'l'lfil'OHgllly spray the same by the "ets of witer dischar ed throu h said tubes. As the wiper passes the tappet 88, the valve is closed and av wing of the table being now alined. with the stationary table, the operator who feeds the bottles 'to the rinser, new places another tray upon the rear mid of table 8 and pushes the same forward to its. rinsing position previously described, this action causes the lug-extensions 45 of the tray previously acted upon by the rinser to be engaged by the lug 4-5 of the rear tray, the engagei'nent thus forces the tray of rinsed bottles from the rinsing table 8 to the wing 6 of the rotatory table, and the receiving operator then rotates the table as before mentioned, removing a tray of rinsed bottles after each operation, thus the bottles may be quickly and thoroughly cleansed with the greatest possible speed.

7 By using a rotatory-table or other form of movable conveyer to carry on the rinsed bottles from. a fixed rinsing mechanism, I avoid complications in the water-conneetions employed in rotary rinsers, it being necessary in such rinsers to provide grolimd-joint con nections of some form between the watersupply pipe, which is fixed and the rotatory spray-nozzles. And while I have shown and described wipers in connection with the conveyor or rotaiy table for actuating the water-supply valve, in some instances this valve may be twisted outwardly from the position. as shown in Fig. .2, so as to be actuated by vertically reciprocative bottle-washing machines of any well known construc tion, which machines are commonly placed adjacent to a rinseix' In this case, the tap pet 38 in place of being arranged'to operate horizontally would be twisted so as to operate in a vertical direction, thereby conforming to the vertical movement of the bottle- Furthermore in providing a conveyer for carrying off the bottles from the rinser in a rotary form, in place of rotating the rinser, the friction of the rotatory vmember is thereby reduced to a'minimum, which friction in a rotatory rinser is, ,detrimei1tal and requires a greater expenditure of power and also constant care in adjusting the ground-joint connection before mentioned that are necessary in the class of rotatory rinsers.

I claim: 7

1. A rinsing-machine comprising a base having a water-chamber supported thereon and in fixed relation thereto, spray nozzles I extending from the water-chamber, a hensing aoorinrea th rein said nozzles, and a coin emery/0 A &

ing snrronndim the taole divposed above tin a, 1 havin apertnrea tin-rein alii :iore- Hilttl nozzles. the are ot' the table being: di

\ided into two plain; the lov whieh 'i'aro rontai the :ttitlitti a, iianpgei extendingtl dgggwa n lJlt. and a eontrolling' \'a with the waterwiiamliertt re vonzhinatinn oi a eerie: oi lidal hotiirrirzun and ennav'ing the whereirv the forward tray ii' )l1tt*lil of, the sneweeding; tray. when iinlatter 'i open '1 the tahle to a 1v1ltttiii; f tam .i relatire to the spray-nozzle andin tixed relation there-r, extend] from tin watt-vei ing' .snrionin n g a hinged r; the romln nerd in have (no Htlilth and tatiit- ,ior tftilneetion with the waterrinin nation of a series 1*: slidahle emf-no nieanzv' in eoni'ieotion with tering' the liott'le-tray-i rein-H nozzles.

3. A. rinsinganaehine tiiliitfiifiittj a serier-t of rigidly supportml ;wi,ti\ ,'ii(Y/1Xltand a Water-chamber common to all nozzles, a ralve in connection wiih the water-vlnimlier,

a tixed taliie tliSPOn'Qtl ahoro the apraynozj zles having; apertures therein aiined with said nozzles; the eomlnnaimn of a, SMUJS oi: slidable l)! tie-trays a 'ang ed to have engagement with the ii 'r-d ialiie, means in row neec-ion with the Zilied tahle for center-m in -onneiiion i iming n i110 wmnri-ing a haw;

ixed, t the l,-ottie-tra relative to tho spray-nozzles, 3 a rotatory eonre rer havinghorizontal faces upon a plane eommon to the fixed table and 1 adapted to travel past the adjacent edges of the iixed table, and means in connection with the eonveyer ior rontrolling the water-eupply valve incidental to moven'ioi'it of said therewith and arranged to travel past the adjaeent' edge ot the fixed table with which said wings are alined for the reception of trays discharged from the stationary table,

and wipers in connection with said rotatory eonreyer for engagement. with the valve tappe-i ineidental to movement of any one of the eonveyer wings past: the adjacent edge oi the aforesaid t'ixed talile.

in testimony that I claim the l'oregoiing I have hereunto setmy hand ativlilwankeo, in

the vonnty of iv'iilwankee and State of \Viieonsin in the preaeneo of two WItIIGSSGS.

ADOLIH Wt)liiiIQNS BERGER.

\Y i tnesaes:

(lilo. \V. YOUNU Uni). G. FELBER. 

